HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Samsung Exynos 7870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1600MHz)

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +73%

299

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +110%

1040

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +422%

115

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

900 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

-

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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